Bakari Kitwana
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture.
Basic Books, 2002. First printing of first paperback edition. 0465029795 xxii/230 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
""The Hip Hop Generation" is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American empowerment."